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Sold Out Futures: Public Employee Pensions, Census of Governments Data

All across the country, despite an economy that has been officially out of recession for half a decade and...

This past week Journalist Dominic Carter went one-on-one with NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton. One topic was the protests...

Journalist Dominic Carter this week, went one-on-one with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Here’s Part One & Part two. Sharpton:...

When people think about America’s debt problem, they generally think about the national debt, which is to say the...

For nearly 30 years Americans, individually and collectively, have sold the future to live for today. In the private...

The next post will be delayed, but I’m completing a tabulation of which states are the worst and best...

I have been a registered democrat since the day I became a naturalized US citizen in August 1996. Initially...

Collectively, we must find a way to stop the violence. Just days ago, I saw the damage at each...

This post will complete my series on different government functions based on finance data from the 2012 Census of...

For twenty years it was the same dance. The Mayor would play the bad guy and propose a budget...